From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INABILITY occurs
6 times
(
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1.
... inability to
accept much on faith, we ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
2.
... inability to
control his drinking can do ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
If anyone who is
showing inability to
control his
drinking can do the
right-about-
face and
drink like a
gentleman, our
hats are off to him.
3.
... inability to
form a true partnership with ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The
primary fact that we
fail to
recognize is our
total inability to
form a
true partnership with another
human being.
4.
... inability to
leave it alone, no matter ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
This is the
baffling feature of
alcoholism as
we
know it -- this
utter
inability to
leave it alone,
no
matter how
great the
necessity or the
wish.
5.
... inability to
point imagination toward the right ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
6.
... inability to
stop.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Certain drinkers, who
would be
greatly insulted if called
alcoholics, are
astonished at their
inability to
stop.
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